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Thread #79723 Message #1451072
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
03-Apr-05 - 04:18 PM
Thread Name: eyes did sparkle like diamonds/Bonny Brown Hair
Subject: RE: eyes did sparkle like diamonds/Bonny Brown Hair
A few other versions are known; see for instance Herbert Hughes, Irish Country Songs vol II, 52-59, and Journal of the Irish Folk Song Society, II, 1905, 14-16 (3 examples). For a set recorded directly from tradition, see http://www.veteran.co.uk/:
John Kennedy: The girls along the road
The song appeared on broadsides as The Lass with her Jet Braided Hair. For two printed around 1850 in Birmingham, see :
The lass with her jet braided hair